Word Work and Literacy Centers

(The Phonics Dance Way)

Ginny A. Dowd

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Table of Contents

Word Work Pages 5 - 34

Let’s listen 6 – 7 Rhyme it! 8 - 11 Beginning Sounds 12 - 20 Ending Sounds 21 - 29 Segmenting 30 - 33 Blending 34

Becoming Word Detectives Pages 35 - 86 The Onset and Rime Word Families – Let’s make words! 36 - 80 Ending-O (It’s just like Bingo) 81 - 83 Vowels in isolation 84 - 86

Is it a real word or silly nonsense words? Pages 87 - 111 Let’s sort!

Let’s read!

Syllables Pages 112 - 116 Alphabetical Order Pages 117 - 125 Sorting Word Families Pages 126 - 142 Ending ck and Super Silent e Pages 143 - 161

Sorts and Sentence Writing

Mystical Magical Y say E or I Pages 162 - 170 Sorts and Sentence Writing

Consonant Clusters Pages 171 - 180 Sorts and Sentence Writing

ed at the end of a Root Word Pages 181 - 186

atch and itch Sort Pages 187 - 189

Hunk and Chunk Fun Pages 190 - 204 Sorts and Sentence Writing

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Categorizing Pages 205 - 207

Plurals Pages 208 - 211 (S or es means more than one!)

Irregular Plurals Pages 212 – 217

Drop the Y. Add ies Pages 218 - 220

Letter and Word Hunts Pages 221 - 237

Letter Games and Lessons Pages 23 - 247 Word-o,, Number-o, Color-o 239 - 241

Letter Venn diagrams 242 - 243 Class Surveys 245 - 246 Sounds on Parade 247

Language Arts Sorts and Memory Games Pages 248 - 264 Generic Sorting Worksheet 249 - 250

Contraction Memory Games 251 - 254 Compound Word Memory Games 255 - 258 Homophone Memory Game 259 Fact or Fiction Sorts 260 - 264

Puzzle Party Pages 265 - 266 Draw a picture. Cut it up. Put it together. Draw a picture. Label it. Put it together. Make a diagram. Cut it up. Put it together.

Sentence Scrambles Pages 267 - 275 Looking or Capital letters and Sentence Stoppers (periods and question marks) Unscrambling whole sentences

Parts of Speech Sorts Pages 276 - 298 Nouns 277 - 280 Nouns and Verb 281 - 290 Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives 291 - 298

Real Estate Book Scavenger Hunt Pages 299 - 302

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Name _______________________ What’s my beginning sound?

1. Say each word. 2. Listen carefully for the beginning sound. 3. Write it on the line before the picture. 4. On the back of your paper, look at each picture and

write each beginning sound five times.

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Name _____________________________ The Sound Detective

Let’s listen for first and last sounds in a word!

Beginning Sound Ending Sound

1. Cut out the sound detective. 2. Listen to the sound I say. Say it with me. 3. Listen to the word I say. Where did you hear the

sound we just reviewed? Was it at the beginning of the word? Or was it at the end of the word?

4. Place the sound detective in the box that shows where you heard the sound. Did you hear it at the beginning of the word or the end of the word?

5. Let’s do it again with a new word!

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Name _______________________ What’s my ending sound?

1. Say each word. 2. The beginning sound is written for you. 3. Listen carefully for the ending sound. Write the letter

on the line after the picture.

p ___ c ___

g ___ s ___

m ___ h ___

b ___ t ___

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an an an an an

Name __________________

Can I see a?

Can I see a ?

Can I see a ?

Can I see a ?

Can I see a ?

Let’s make words that rhyme with an!

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Cut out each letter. Paste it in the box that will complete the word that rhymes with an. Can you read the sentence?

f c v p m

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cut out each letter. Paste it in the box that will complete the word that rhymes with an. Can you read the sentence?

f c v p m

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cut out each letter. Paste it in the box that will complete the word that rhymes with an. Can you read the sentence?

f c v p m

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cut out each letter. Paste it in the box that will complete the word that rhymes with an. Can you read the sentence?

f c v p m

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Good readers look at the picture and get their mouths ready to say the first sound. Then they

look for parts of the word they know! What word goes with each of these pictures?

This is a _________________.

This is a _________________.

This is a _________________.

This is a ________________.

This is a _________________.

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Name _______________________

pan is a real word! yan is not! Some words are real words and some words are silly nonsense words! Do you know the difference? Let’s sort!

Beginning Sound. Ending of the Word

Yes! This is a real word!

Oh, no! This is totally not!

an

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How do we play? 1. Cut out each of the beginning sound cards. 2. Place them in a pile upside-down above your name. 3. Turn over one card at a time. 4. Place it in the empty box next to the an letter combination.

5. Read the word in two parts. Read it altogether. 6. Decide. Is this a real word or a silly nonsense word?

7. Write it in the correct box. 8. Don’t forget to underline the ending sound!

gm

lw

qu

r

cfv

p

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You are a syllable robot! To become a syllable robot, repeat the word I say but talk like you have been transformed into a mechanical student.

1. Cut out a box of robots. 2. Listen to the word I say. Repeat it talking like a robot. 3. Syllables are vowel sounds. How many syllables are in

the word I say? Place your robots in the correct box.

Let’s count syllables robot style! I hear……

1 Syllable

1 vowel

sound

2 syllables 2 vowel

sounds

3 3

Syllables vowel

sounds

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Name _____________________________ A, B, C Order! It’s a race of the letters! Let’s see who the winner is with words!

Underline the first letter of each word. Color it on the alphabet line. Which word will win the A, B, C order race? The one whose letter is closest to A of course!

Which word will lose the race? The word that has the letter farthest away from A of course! Let’s see who the winner is! Each time you read a word, color its first letter on the alphabet line. Who was the winner? Who came in second place?

Who lost the race?

pig boy mom

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

First Place _______ Second Place _______ Third Place ______

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yes no is

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

First Place _______ Second Place _______ Third Place ______

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the can at

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

First Place _______ Second Place _______ Third Place ______

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Name______________________ Let’s sort the wimpy vowels that end in c – k!

(the color of the cat)

ack eck ick ock uck

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1. Read each word.

2. Underline the consonant cluster. 3. Decide if the word is a real word or a completely silly

nonsense word. Color your answer.

splat Real word Silly nonsense word

brug Real word Silly nonsense word

green Real word Silly nonsense word

swut Real word Silly nonsense word

scink Real word Silly nonsense word

skunk Real word Silly nonsense word

tree Real word Silly nonsense word

snow Real word Silly nonsense word

preb Real word Silly nonsense word

frob Real word Silly nonsense word

small Real word Silly nonsense word

slib Real word Silly nonsense word

street Real word Silly nonsense word

school Real word Silly nonsense word

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Name _______________________ A plural! A plural means more than one!

Take a noun. Add s or es to it and it will make it mean more than one!

one pig one jack in the box

two pigs two jack in the boxes

Write s or es on each line. Draw to show how many.

1. One cat two cat____

2. One church three church____

3. One fox four fox____

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1. Choose a concept you would like to reinforce with your class.

• a specific letter • a common phonogram • Consonant clusters • a hunk an chunk • long vowels with super silent e • short vowels • root words • Contractions • Compound words • Plurals • Adjectives • Nouns • Proper nouns • Verbs • Contractions • pronouns

2. Tell the class they are going to be part of a detective agency. Their case will be to look for one of the concepts listed above. Examples:

• Option 1: Walk around the classroom looking at print. Try to find as many letter c words as you can.

• Option 2: Give each student a poem and have them circle the the “ch” hunk and chunk each time they see it.

• Looking through a story or a page in a story, write down all of the proper nouns you see

• .Looking through a newspaper or magazine article, find words with suffixes and prefixes. Write them down.

• Reading from the basal find contractions. Write the two words that make up the contraction.

You can design these lessons to fit the developmental level of each of the students in your class.

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Name ____________________________________

glasses and hearts are common nouns!

Nouns are something you can touch.

I am on a common noun hunt! Today I am looking for words that are any old people,

places, animals or things!

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